One Avenger is curiously absent from Samsung's top theme (Update)

You can get any Avenger you want in Samsung's new Theme Engine, as long as that character is a dude.

Samsung's marketing deal with Disney/Marvel includes, among many other things, a special spot at the top of the Theme app for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge. These Avengers themes aren't wildly different from the other themes Samsung offers, save for the giant "only in theaters" branding for the upcoming Age of Ultron in at least one of the two wallpapers that come with each theme.

But if you're looking for the complete Avengers roster — as far as the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the end of the first Avengers film is concerned — you'll find one character missing.

The six Avengers themes in Samsung's app offer you one theme for each of the four big names currently on Team Avenger, as well as a theme for Age of Ultron and a theme for Hawkeye. While it'd be understandable if Black Widow and Hawkeye were both left out of these themes, it's a little silly for Black Widow to be the only Avenger not represented.

And don't even get me started on the lack of an Ultron theme. Villains need some love, too, Marvel and Samsung.

Way to force us to click on your stupid article just to see who it is. This is one of the reasons I use Ad Block Pro for this site. I don't support the stupid click bait articles such as this or on the internet in general. (The Verge, CNET, GameSpot also comes to mind)

How the hell is it "understandable" if Hawkeye wasn't a theme????.... As if he's not important....he's part of the avengers......hes not a side character like say,warmechine ..... Some of these writers write stupid stuff..... Oh wait where talking about phone themes right?...... Well its a pointless gimmick......done

Sure it's a first world problem but one that definitely should be addressed. Thank you Mr. Holly for bringing it up even though most don't care about it.
I have a young daughter who loves the Avengers. Her Favorite is Captain America but Black Widow is a close 2nd for her. There is no reason why Marvel or Samsung should act as if a female Avenger isn't worthy of getting her own theme. Hell, Black Window is a much more interesting character than Hawkeye and if I recall correctly she handed his ass to him in the first flick.

As a huge Avengers fan, I'm thinking the same (seems like manufactured nerd angst). But it's Sunday, no other Android news so why not? It's great fodder for nerd debate as you see above in the comments. :)

I don't think it would have been contractual, as all of the actors would have signed over permission to use their likeness. They own the character rights anyway, so I don't see the reason for only one character to be excluded. Not that I would put any of them on my phone for long, but I do admire her character in the movie. She played the same character in Lucy, though with blond hair this time, lol.

Luke Cage? Falcon? I could name a bunch of other "black" avenger from the comics.
If you're refering to Nick Fury then he's not an avenger and he's not even black in the comics. 1 alternate universe version of him is black and they went with that for the cinematic universe because they needed a token black guy.

Did I use the word sexism? I submitted an article from a former Marvel Employee who explained how these license work and that male character are prioritised because over females because if the belief that they have to cater to makes over girls even though Marvel's highest grossing movie from last year reported 47% females viewing it in US cinemas. Nah including the entire team except the only female is not sexist at all.

Sure, RDJ's contract may be larger overall, but the individual line items may be very different. For all I know, SJ's image use clause may be 10x the next highest. Using her image may cost more than all the other Avengers combined. Without the information used to make the decision, it just seems a little premature to point the finger at Samsung.

Using images of women and wanting more access to the male market are not mutually exclusive. Look dude I don't want to get any argument, I'll just say that I know some creatives working in the industry and they report the same thing, Its changing but slowly. but the fact of the matter is executives still have the view that the female market doesn't buy merchandise and as such they cater to them less.. Look here is an interview with Paul Dini (Batman Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Beyond, Young Justice etc.) breaking it down http://io9.com/paul-dini-superhero-cartoon-execs-dont-want-largely-f-148...

While most of the themes are a little ugly, in my opinion, I still think this theme engine is an awesome addition by Samsung. I'm rocking the Retro theme and it really does change the whole look of the phone!

It used to suck 2 years ago, no doubt. Like the S4 and note 3 originally ? Terrible IMO. But now there's a lot of touchwiz elements that look better than any other OEM skins. For the most part it's become very clean and toned down

Honestly I don't know anymore man. The only thing I really like more about sense is the look of the quick settings. Samsung on the other hand decided to make it bright blue and throw in a yellow brightness slider and i hate it. But TW has become so minimalistic that in many ways it looks better than sense now. I mean shit, samsung even removed many of the horozontal lines separating settings categories and menus. TW'S fonts are stock ,and their header themes are very material design like. One could think they're in a Google app at times if they didn't know better. I don't like sense's fonts, the look of
It's menu's, and some of its native apps. Some are very nice
Of course such as the stock calender, messaging app, etc.

But ya. I get annoyed when people bash touchwiz these days because most of the time they're thinking of what it was 2 years ago or judging its launcher, which is irrelevant

Then I assume you're talking about touchwiz's launcher. Other than that and maybe some elements of a few native apps, most people wouldn't say it remains ugly if they didn't know it was "touchwiz" lol, because it's not. Not even close. Goddamn, it now looks even less cluttered than Sense In many ways. As an example, Just compare the settings menus between Note 4/ S6 to the Sense 7. It's obvious who took the more minimalistic approach. That's what all of TW is now for the most part.

Don't assume we're stupid. I know what the launcher is and what it isn't. My dislike of Touchwiz was well beyond the launcher. That said, I do think it looks better on the S6 now that they've tried to work with Material Design.

Well that comment wasnt directed towards you. My dislike with it in the past went well beyond the launcher too, but that's not relevant anymore. And it's new aesthetics didn't start with the S6. Every 5.0 build of touchwiz from the S6 to the Note 4 to the S4 is almost identical, and material design has been implemented throughout.

That's fine, but that's all quite new. I didn't touch a 5.0 build until the S6. Everything before that was awful. And that's not even accounting for the functionality.

So yes, they recently improved it quite a bit. But their history is still a good reason to not be surprised when they're bad at making themes. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Sense 5.0 is hardly proof that they're a UI design powerhouse. Not to mention it took them basing it entirely off of a UI aesthetic someone else designed to pull that off.

The Note 4's kitkat ROM is very decent. The S5 on KK was a big improvement compared to the ugliness of its predecessor. I never said they were a UI design powerhouse, lol. IMO Google is the only one that can claim that title in the androidsphere. And yes, samsung's themes are a joke. 3 months from now hopefully that isn't the case

Captain America Civil War, is a big rumor mill that The Cap will die. Captain America has died in the comics. But Disney/ Marvel is not using the Marvel Universe But their own Made up one. Just hope they don't ruin more villians like the way they disgraced The Mandarin who is one of the Coolest Baddest Foe's in MU and Stark's Nemesis